Add document retrieval functionality to searchbar

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Add document retrieval functionality to searchbar

Closed this issue 10 years ago · 3 comments

There are at least two reasons to implement document retrieval:

When a search fails, the response is an unhelpful 404. It would be more useful to the user to perform a document retrieval query, since presumably the user will not be too far off and could likely just click the right result.
Sometimes the user forgets where he stored a page describing a topic, perhaps because he combined stub articles together without adding anchors.

This would also eliminate the need to use the index (with its aliases) in the autocomplete results.

Answer 1 · 2014-07-25T06:18:54.000Z

I've rewritten the search logic. With a few slight modifications, it should be possible to do this quickly (and also use the results to generate typeahead suggestions).

Answer 2 · 2014-07-25T15:54:52.000Z

This may be helpful. https://pythonhosted.org/Whoosh/indexing.html#incremental-indexing

Answer 3 · 2014-07-26T05:52:01.000Z

Fixed here: 84f3a69

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